January 04, 2004

500,000,000!? 40 yards?! Man alive!
posted by anonymous 20 years ago
  • I used to love going to the science museum as a child (revealing myself as a Lisa Simpson style nerd). Their site reminds me why. I'll have to go again sometime soon, I reckon.
  • "...the top layer of our vision sense receptors is simply scorched away." Wow! Does it regrow? As the child of a macular degeneration sufferor, I've assumed that it was too much exposure to sunlight that did that. Maybe I should be wearing my sunglasses, even at night?
  • I'm curious: can an egg be seen by the naked eye, being the largest cell and all?
  • And how about those nerve cells that are like a metre long or something?
  • Lest vision sense receptors be scorched away, my Preciousss, I just lay a giant egg on each one.
  • Ah, beeswacky, my hero! But, I hope you have a lot of eggs to lay 'cause there are a lot of receptors. I'm counting on you. For those questions we've all posited, I think we all have a lot of research to do. Meetcha back here?
  • I'm curious: can an egg be seen by the naked eye, being the largest cell and all? Yes. I've seen an egg, and it was incredibly small. It was really just a colour or less than that. A difference. Maybe. A blip. Being an adult I immediately thought of God.
  • Okay! I'll try again to get the pointy parentheses right. Unfortunately, I didn't find anything about the "scorching off" phenomenon, but here's a link about bird vision - buzzards rule. (Pray for me!)
  • You didn't pray hard enough. Could someone email me (address in my profile) to let know what it should look like. I followed the Webmonkey cheatsheet, pointy parentheses, equals signs, quotation marks and all. checked it out several times, and still failed. Anyway, here's the URL for the link:http://www.earthlife.net/birds/vision.html AArgh!
  • Linktastic!
  • Here, dear Path.
  • Wheee--Eeek! Spooky, how did we manage to avoid a head-on collision there?
  • Human egg is actually visible. Not that I disbelieved you, Patsee, I wanted an idea of size for myself.
  • Thank you Spooky and Beeswacky! I have often relied on the kindness of monkeys cause I'm too lame to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
  • Birds have 3 eyelids; one upper and one lower eyelid, of which the lower is more moveable, and a nictitating membrane. This nictitating membrane is between the other two eyelids and the cornea and has its own lubricating duct equivalent to our tear duct. It is used in cleaning and protecting the eye. You know, a cool name for a band would be The Nictitating Membranes.
  • MonkeyFilter: I have often relied on the kindness of monkeys...
  • GramMMMAAAAAAAAA!!! /Brando